AFLW Season Seven Round 3

West Coast v Essendon
Round 3, AFLW Season Seven

Smith gets tackled. Photo: aflphotos.com.au

Date

Sun, 11 September 2022 (4.10pm WST)

Venue

Lathlain Park

Attendance

1,501

Result

Lost by 52

Score

ESS 13.6.84 - 4.8.32 WCE

Brownlow

Ladder

13th

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West Coast were humbled by newcomers Essendon, with the expansion side kicking the first nine goals of the match en route to a league-record score at halftime. The home side was able to stem the bleeding somewhat in the second half, but failed to capitalise on the chances they created. Youngster Ella Roberts was prominent with 17 possessions and Aimee Schmidt kicked two goals.

Summary

		1/4 time		1/2 time		3/4 time		Final
West Coast		0.2.2		2.3.15		3.6.24		4.8.32
Essendon		5.2.32		9.4.58		10.4.64		13.6.84

Goals: Schmidt 2, Cameron, McCarthy

Best: Swanson, Roberts, Schmidt, McCarthy, McDonald

Injuries: Swanson (ankle)

Milestones: Hartill AFLW debut

Named sides

	West Coast				Essendon
B:	24.Bullas	14.B.Smith		B:	19.Van Dyke	6.Marshall
HB:	7.Schmidt	35.McDonald	11.McCarthy	HB:	14.Gamble	25.Morcom	26.Van Loon
C:	17.Hooker	10.Sedunary	5.Rowley	C:	20.Cain	4.Prespakis	33.Clarke
HF:	6.Lewis	20.Bartlett	25.Hartill	HF:	2.Gee	24.Alexander	3.Bannister
F:	3.Thomas	32.Petrevski		F:	21.Wuetschner	8.Toogood
R:	23.Lakay	13.Swanson	4.Roberts	R:	30.Wales	32.Scott	12.Doonan
I:	9.Simmons	21.Western	8.Goranova	I:	35.Phillips	10.Vogt	11.Barba
	12.Humphries	19.Cameron			27.Van De Heuvel	18.Zanchetta
E:	15.Bushby	18.Britton	30.Schilling	E:	17.Frew	22.Radford	31.Ryan

In: Schmidt, Hartill

Out: Bennett, Schilling

New: Eleanor Hartill (Collegians, WA)

From the coach

"Really disappointing, I though our first half was really poor. We gave up a 43-point margin at halftime which is way too much, we need to look our first quarters in particular. After that the ball lived in our front end during the third quarter, we just couldn’t capitalise. We need a bit of composure going forward and then we need to hit our set shots. Our starts are definitely a concern.

"No, I don’t think you can say it has anything to do with our off-season, I think more than anything it’s more a mental issue. We need to get on top of that and players need to look at how they prepare for the game and if it’s not working makes some changes and try something new. We will do the same as coaches, we will adjust our pre-game routine and what that looks like including warmup etc. We can’t just keep rolling on and doing the same thing so we will make some changes in that regard.

"You've got to pay credit to Essendon, I thought they were fantastic early and I thought they dominated the ball. We slowly started to turn it around, we got back in the fight at least. It took us a while to get that happening but when we won the hard ball and got our hands on it at clearance the game started to change a little bit in our favour. But the damage was already done at that point."

From the papers

"West Coast got their first goal courtesy of Imahra Cameron with three minutes to go in the first half. The electric forward crafted something special from a forward pocket.

But it was one of the few highlights for the Eagles.

Essendon's transition and strength at stoppages - led largely by another class performance from Madison Prespakis - and forward efficiency gave the Bombers nine first-half goals.

First-year tall Stephanie Wales had three at the main break, giving an undersized Eagles defence plenty to worry about. The Bombers found plenty of avenues to goal, compiling one of the highest half-time scores in AFLW history."

Injury list

In the leadup to the match the following players were listed as being injured or unavailable:

Player		Injury		Expected return
Gooch		Wrist		Season		(On inactive list)
L.Wakfer		Knee		Season		(On inactive list)
Davison		Knee		Season		(On inactive list)
Gibson		Knee		Season
Schmidt		Concussion		Test
B.Smith		Ribs		Test

References

https://www.womens.afl/match-centre/2022/4671/wce-v-ess